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by pilom 13y ago
The problem is that the "non-optimized" solutions assume that every quibit can talk to every other one. So they are modelling what the quibits should do in a perfect case and modelling the perfect case is much slower than modellin
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by pilom 13y ago
For those curious, the Three Gorges Dam in China is the largest powerplant in the world and has a maximum power rating of 22,500 MW (22.5 GW).
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by pilom 13y ago
Helium exists in 2 parts of this plant. In the plasma toroid (the hot part) hydrogen will be converted into helium but in incredibly small quantities (X grams/hour). In the electromagnets, there will be liquid helium. This is to keep t
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by pilom 13y ago
Most of the economic analysis of elevators I've seen use one elevator to lift a second cable as their first flight, this is why building every one after the first is cheaper.
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by pilom 13y ago
You found out the right first step yourself: Block the source IP address. Sure it will turn into a game of whack-a-mole with them changing their IP but eventually, their customers will get fed up with their downtime. Second idea: Javascript
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by pilom 13y ago
Even if he had done this though, its possible the hosts simply had the rule of thumb "I only rent to people who have rented before and have reviews." The OP has used the service many times and likely had numerous positive reviews,
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by pilom 13y ago
I ended up with these: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0037Z1FRM/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... It came with 3 sizes of earbuds, I had to use different sizes in each ear. They are terrible headphones, but they stayed
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by pilom 13y ago
I got a waterproof ipod shuffle here: http://www.underwateraudio.com/waterproof-ipod-shuffle/ I would clip it to my goggle strap and swim about an hour a day 3 days a week back when I lived by a pool. The ipod shuffle
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by pilom 13y ago
The condom one is because the Gates Foundation held a competition [1] to redesign the condom to make condom use more prevalent in Africa (hopefully to help prevent the spread of HIV) [1] - http://www.grandchallenges.org/Expl
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by pilom 13y ago
Edward Abbey is on my reading list but I haven't gotten there yet. I will definitely recommend The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko. It says its a story of the fastest trip down the Grand Canyon but its really a story of the history of
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by pilom 13y ago
I guess you're right in the cases of the aquifer's. There are 2 possible solutions. 1. Tax water pumped out of aquifers so that demand levels off at the aquifer fill rate, or 2. Wait until all the the aquifers are depleted to lowe
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by pilom 13y ago
Thanks for the link! Didn't know it wasn't operating. My understanding is that the treaty says that the salt content should be less than X parts per million and when the Colorado River gets saltier than X, they can turn the plant
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by pilom 13y ago
Well, about 80% of water use (in the west) is for irrigation purposes. Ideally, making farmers pay market (and externality adjusted) rates for their water would discourage them from growing plants which need a lot of water per unit food (li
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by pilom 13y ago
Actually Mexico threatened to take the US to international court during Nixon's presidency because the water coming out of the Colorado River into Mexico was so salty it was killing crops and un-drinkable. The US agreed to make one of
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by pilom 13y ago
Funny for this to come up now. I'm reading Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner now which is all about water policy in the western US. The short answer is that we consume WAY more water than all of the precipitation on the entire region can
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by pilom 13y ago
My understanding was they were extracting natural gas and burning off methane. Methane is much more difficult to transport (because the molecules are so small it leaks out of everything as a gas and its very difficult to get it cold enough
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by pilom 13y ago
Most of this is natural gas and not crude oil. The reason these fields are now viable is because of hydraulic fracturing (fracking). Before fracking, no one thought you'd ever get any oil out of that area. Now all of a sudden its all a
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by pilom 13y ago
Yes, but it doesn't pay well enough until I can get rid of my student loans. I worked as a whitewater rafting guide for summers while in college and have never felt so alive and happy in my life. Unfortunately, I had 60k in student loa
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by pilom 13y ago
In a vacuum, you could get GPS accuracy down to 700 nanometers with clocks that accurate [1]. If only that pesky atmosphere didn't get in the way! [1]: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%281+second+%2F430+tril..
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by pilom 13y ago
Storage on this scale is almost never done with batteries. Today its done with pumping water up to a reservoir while we have power and then letting it flow back down through generators when we don't have power. This is know as "Pu
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by pilom 13y ago
My guess is they are feeling the hit from Oracle Linux's business model and wanted the flexibility to compete directly. Oracle Linux's distribution model is that you can take CentOS, change a couple repositories and make it Oracle
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by pilom 13y ago
None of these satellites will improve on the maximum resolution of Google Maps. Physics prevents it. They would need to be MUCH larger to get better resolution. Like: http://spaceref.com/onorbit/kh-9-hexagon-spy-satelli
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by pilom 13y ago
Whoops thanks for seeing that. My bad.
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by pilom 13y ago
I worked for one of the big defense contractors until recently. One of the most enlightening things I got to see while there was a tour of the F-18 assembly line. While the fear about what would happen to the jobs and the facility after the
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by pilom 13y ago
> And no, you can't copyright gameplay mechanics. As long as no actual art or verbiage of the rule-book is copied, a game can be copied freely. So I really could satisfy all of the pent up demand for this game by making a clone with
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by pilom 13y ago
I love the idea of the game, but I'm curious what Wizards of the Coast thinks of this game? Roborally ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009HLSP0/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... ) is the exact same game just targete
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The Day Google Had to Start Over on Android(theatlantic.com)
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by pilom 13y ago
"2050 likely represents the peak of world energy demand" I guess I'm a Sci-Fi dreamer about energy use. There are some REALLY cool things you can do if you have an infinite supply of free energy. Some of the cooler ones: Ma
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by pilom 13y ago
Superconductive power transmission lines are huge. You now can move electricity anywhere with zero loss. I've seen loss numbers for the US electrical grid as high as 20%. Imagine if we got 20% more power to use from the same generators
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by pilom 13y ago
There are now some companies which provide non-signature based anti-virus detection to potentially detect zero-day malware. Most of them work by spinning up a vm, run or open the file to check, and verify any changes to the system. Check ou

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